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VOL. VII NUMBEIt 147
Americans
LOUISl
Freedom of Straits
Turkish Leader Announces
American College Can
Be Re-opened
(By The Associated Press)
LAUSANNE, Dee. 20 On the ève of what threatens to
be a criticai day in the Hfe of the Lausanne conference, Am
bassador Childs had a long- conversation with Ismet Pasha
about the Straits problem. It had become known that the
American observors believed that
JUDGE SMITH'S
MOTHER DEAD
li T1 BiTP'ìrsrMìT
Al nLnlUKI
Mrs. Elizabeth Smith ìs
Survived By Fivc
Children
Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, mother of
Judge Ephraim J. Smith of New
port, passed away yesterday
morning aftei' a long; illness. Mrs.
Smith died at her home at 1C7
West Main Street at tight o'clock
Funeral services bave been ar
ranged for Thursday afternoon at
two o'clock, Rev. IL B. Rankin, i
pastor of the First Baptist church
officiating. Internietit 'will be in
Fine Grove cemetery.
Mrs. Simth has been ili since
last August, he.- malady being
diagTiosed as hardoring of the ar
teries. Shc was 75 years of age and
leaves five children to mourn her
loss. Miss Loyalist Smith, Judge
. E. J. Smith, Clifton Smith and
Seth Smith ali of Newport and
Ernest Smith, master at St. Psul's
school at Garden City, L. I.
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Mr. and Mrs. IlOOker
Tn SJimnv Erudii
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Mr. un !
fcrmer
well-known St. Johnsbury i
residents whn have been living in
W est Somerville, Mass., left that
city Dee. (! and aie now at. Orlan
do, Fla., where they '.vili j)ass the
winter. Spending the first night
in Washington and the second
night in Florence, S. C, they
veached Jacksonville the third day.
There they picked up their auto
mobile which rame by boat from
New York nd motered through
northern Florida to Orlando where
they are located at the St. James.
Mrs. Ilooker writes:
"There has been a gicat deal of
building nere, new churches, ho
tels, a very large sehoolhouse, just
cross from the bandstand at Eola
Park. They have a band engaged
rnd will begin playing lice. 17.
This is a beautiful sunshiny day i
ami I wish ali my Vermont 1 nends
coubl be here to en.joy this beau
tiful cimiate. It seeins like summer
timo with the flowers in bloom,
lovely ))oinsettas, oianges and
grape fruit on the trees, vegetabies
growing and new potatoes in the
stoies."
BRUNEN MURDER
TRIAL COMES TO END
MT. HOLLY N. .. Dee. 20 The
taking of testimony in the trial of
Mrs. Doris Brune:; and her brotli
er Hari v C. Molli- chaiged with
-ihe killing of Ciaries T. Mohi
ended this morning and the case
will go to the jury today.
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J nere will be a play and CKnst-
mas tiee at the County school,
Inday evenmg, Deceiv.ber 27.
Ali Children Under 12 Years
ARE INYITED TO TIIK ELKS HOME FOR THE
CHRISTMAS TREE, S Aì URDAY, DEC. 23
Imnird'atcly after t h matinee at the Globe Theatre. Par
cnts will ph a.-e bave your children cali at the Elks Home Wed-iie-day
3.00 to .").()() I'. M., and Thurday 10.00 A. M. to 5.00 P.
M. During the-.e liouis, ticket.-, will be given the children for
the Chiistnias Tiee and by tourte-y of Mr. Homer A. Grave a
ticket to the
GLOBE THEATRE MATINEE AT 2.00
Saturday Afteinoon, December 23
SANTA ( LAUS WILL BE THERE TO LOOK
AFTER THE LITTLE ONES. LET THEM
COME.
ST. JOHNSBURY LODGE OF ELKS NO. 1343
THE CALEDONIAN-REGORD
Demand
an international control commis-
sion associatoli with the Leagne of
Nations, as suggested, is unneces
sary l'or the sunervision of the
bardanelles. The Americans be
l'ève that freedom of the Straits
i-houl,i be Puai'anteed.
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LAUSANNE, Dee.
20 Ismet
Pasha received a message
from
Mustapha Kemal today announeing
that the American College at
Smyrna whieh was closed during
the fighting theie mayreopen and
that the Nationalist government
has no objection to the school
carrying on its work throughout
Turkey.
JUDGE MILES
NOTTORUNFOR
RE-ELECTION
Frank I). Thompson, Bar
ton, Is Superior Court
Candidate
BARTON,
I W. Miles has
Dee. 20 Judge W.
rnnounced that he
wiii noi ne a candidate Tor reelee-
jtion as one of the .justices of the
Vermont Supreme court at Ihe
next Legislature.
- ,,.,, ,,, hv r ' ' rhar
I. Bell in 1905," to fili the vacancy
caused by the death of Judge
Start. He is now in his 77th year
valuable
and has mane a most
member of the bench during his 17
years of servire.
It is the usuai custom for the
Legislature in case of a vacancy
ir, the Supreme court to advance
oro of the superior judges to the
upper court. Judge Fred M.
Butler, now chief justice of the
superior court, is the next in line
and splendidly qualified for pro
motion. If the custom is followed out it
leaves a vacancy in the superior
court and inasmuch as northeast-ei-n
Vermont has not been repre-
i s( -nted on the Superior court since
the advancement of Judge L. I'.
Slack of St. Johnsbury to the Su
preme bench the members of the
Legislature in this section will
presént the name of Hepresenta-tivc-clect
Frank ). Thompson of
(Co.itinusiT oiì page five)
DRIVER OF LIQUOR
CAR FINED $100
St. ALBANS, Dee. 20 Jack
lla'nson of Albany, N. C, who was
bound over for appearance at the
Decomber term of United States
court under bonds of $500 for al
logeni smuggling of liquor was ar
i raigned before Judge Nathan N.
Post in the city court chargod
with driving an automobile with
m,iber plates not assigned to bini,
He pleaded guilty and was fined
,fl()( and costs which he paid.
ST.
GUA
EEAO
"YOU WILL HA VE TO
EDITOKIAL
M U NICIPA L MA N A G E li
Articles liave been incorporated into the warninjr for the
vi'hig:e meeting on January 3,
the village want to appoint a committee to revise the !)y
laws of the villane and to see if the voters will
authorize the trustees to eniploy a ìiuinicipal manager
as pVovided in the Vermont Statutes.
The laws of 1917, as amended by the laws of 1921, pro
vide that the villane trustees or the selectmen may employ a
municrpal and town manager and gives the powers and duties
of such an ofTieer. Said manager holds office at the will of
the selectmen and trustees and wotild have general supervi
sion of the affairs of the town and village. Sudi manager sh ali
be the general purchasing agent and purcliase ali supplies for
every department thereof; shall have charge of ali public,
town and school buildings and other town and school prop
crty and of ali repairs thereon, and unless specially voted
otherwise, shall have charge' of ali new building; shall per
forili the duties now confermi upon the road commissioner ;
shall perforili the duties now confermi upon the overseer of
the poor; do ali the accounting.
(Continued on page 1)
POLICEMAN IN HEROIC
KECUE OF BOV
SOM ERVILLE, Mass. Dee. 20
A iboy was rescued by a police
- ois inciuding
cight children were foreed to the
.svreets early today as a result of
fi re in a tobacco stole which start
ed in the ground floor of a three
story frame building here.
The boy, Bartholmew Tatali,
overcome by smoke was trapper 1.1
his bedroom on tiie second floor.
T'-olman W. Donovan climbed a
ladder entered the room by break
ing a window, and carried the boy
to safety over the roof of an ad
joimng nouse. Donovan suffered a
sprained ankle in jumping to the
ground. The damage was slight.
Fi re Fighters Have
Very Busy Day
Tuesday was a busy day for the
fi re depai-tment. They received a
cali around 9.30 in the morning
to go to a smart chimney fi re on
113 Portland Street.
The second cali carne at 10.4."i to
'extinguish stili another chimney
fi re at the home of Mrs. Gibbons
I on 47 Caledonia Street. A third
' cali carne around 1.15 p. m. This
! proved to be a Buick automobile
I owned by William Cox which was
blazing merrily when the Are fìght
I ers arrived. This was soon ex-
tinguished, but the top was des
troyed, and one door and the back
of the ear iva;; bad'v bunicd.
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JOHNSBURY, VERMONT WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1922
HURRY, FOLKS ! !
1923, to see if the voters of
20 FACE CHARGES OF
$1,000,000 THE FI
WASH INGTON. Dee. 20
The dej'artment of justice is jre
paring to file suit against the
Wright-Martin Aircraft Corpora
tion for recovery of a war daini
amounting to $."5,70 1 ,7 1 . The
House judiciary committee was
ttold by Assistant (ieneral Seymour
1 at the hearing on impeachment
charges s'.gain.-t Attorney General
Daugheity.
NEW YORK, Dee. 20 Tiventy
civilian cmiployees at 'he I'rooklyn
Navy base were arrestici today on
indietments returned several
months ago chaiging ihat govern
ment propei ty to the value of more
than 1,0(10,0110 had been stolen.
The stolen propei ty included fuel
oil and clothing.
NEWTON D. BAKER
TESTIFIES TO FRAUDS
WASHINGTON, Dee. 20
Newton D. Baker, wlio was secre
ta ry of war in President Wilson's
wartime cabinet appeared before
the special federai grand jury
which is in session bere investiga
ting war frauds. The purpose was
not revealed but it. is known that
recently the investigation has cen
tered about alleged iri'egularities
in the building of army canton-iii-
ut....
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By MORRIS
INSTITDTE
DEDICATION
T0M0RR0W
Ex-Governor 3IcCall Will
Gi ve Principal
Address
The new $200,000 administration
, building at Lyndon Institute, whieh
! rises like a phoenix from the :ish-e-;
of the disastrous fire of last
January, is to be dedicated Thur.i-
iday with appropriate exercises.
The day's program inrludes a
'reception and inspection during
the forenoon, and in the afternoon
the dedication exercises in the
new chapel at 2 o'clock.
There will be a fine musical pro
gram in charge of the Verde Mont
Trio of St. Johnsbury. The prin
cipal address of the afternoon will
be by former governor Samuel W".
McCall of Winchester, Mass. Mr.
McCall is a member of the board
ot trustees and has always taken
an aetive interest in the welfare
lof the school. Mrs. McCall is a
graduate of the school, the daugh-
ter of its first president, Sumner
! S. Thompson.
Short addresses and gieetings
are expected by President Charles
A. Plumley of Norwich University,
President Guy W. Bailey of the
University of Vermont, Prof. O. D.
Collins of Middlebury College, a
former teaeher at the Institute,
Charles IL Dempsey of Montpelier,
sti'te superintendent of education,
and others, and the gathering bids
fair to be a notable one.
In the evening theie will be a
general reception with appropriate
exercises and the public is cordially
inviteli to ali of them.
Workmen have been busy the
last few davs nutting on the fin-
ishing touches everywheie and 1
the work is gratifymgly complete
in every particulur.
FIND EXPENSIVE
BOOZE CAR IN LAKE
MIDDLEBURY, Dee. 20 An
automobile containing 152 bottles
of ale, with its rear wheels sunk
through the ice, was found on the j
lake near Larrab-e's Point yes-
terday by Deputy Sheritf Ned
Burchard of Shoieiiam. The car
was Locomobile and bore 'New
York license plates. Deputy Bur
chard brought the ale to tne Addi
ci county jail in thi- villane.
LAU
i w m t ni 1 TTÌ J
move u vnecii iianaping or
Citizens By Secret Hooded Men
ACADEMY WINS
FROM ORLEANS
BY 30-29 SCORE
With 15 Seconda to Play
Goss Hurls In Shot
That Wins
St. Johnsbury Academ" won its
second game of the season in n
fast exciting contest with Orleans
High school at Orleans last night
by a score of 30 to 29. With fif
teen seconds left to go, Goss the
steri ing Academy right guard, ac
eepting a pass, dashed down the
floor and tallied a goal that put
the Academy boys ono point ahead
of their opponents. j
The game was an exciting affair
from start to finish. Both teams
gave a fine exhioition of guarding
and passing, and no player was
able to shoot except in rare in
stances, without an opposing play
er at his side to contest the at
tempt. lMckinson and Pike were easily
the stars as far as baskets were
concerned, Dickinson makirig ten
of the points obtainefl by his team
and Pike, a dozen, eight of which
were free throws from fouls. Gal
lup starred for Orleans with a to
tal of 1!) points to his credit. This
man was every where on the floor
and his shooting was tnie and well
timed. The first period ended with,
the Academy leading with a score
of 17 to 12. I
The game was an exceedingly 1
clean contest - and the Academy
boys were impressed by the sports
manlike qualities of their hosts. i
After the game the Orleans stu-
dents gave a dance to which the
Academy boys were cordially en
tertained. One peculiar incident of the
game was whén the big leather
sphere became lost in the furnace.
Scruton was guarding Gallup
closely, when the later slipped and
dislodged a hot air radiator from
the floor, the ball disappearing
through the hole. Investigation
showed the ball to be in one of the
pipes of the furnace, from which
it was rescued. The score:
ACADEMY .30
Goals Fouls Points
Léonard, lf 3 0 G
ickinson, rf 4 0 8
Pike, c c 8 12
Scruton, lg 10 2
Goss, rg 10 2
Totals 11 8 30
ORLEANS IL S. 29
Goals Foul.s Points
7 5 19
.10 6
: 0 2
1 0 2
0 0 0
Gallup, lf
Spnnger, rf
Nule c
Colby, lg
Berry, rg
Totals 12 5 29
Timers, Kellogg, Dunton. Time,
20 minute halves. Scorer, Kellogg.
BOSTON POLICE ARE
ROUNDING UP THINGS
BOSTON, Mass., Dee. 20
Eleven men were questioned by
the policc today after the second
nighc's round-up of suspicious per
sons, ordered by Police superin-
tendents in an effort to .prevent '
prolongation of the recent .serie s 1
of hold-ups. The men were taken
from down towrn pool rooms and
from the streets. Threc of the men
were taken while driving a car
with 75 containers ot moon.shiners.
STOLE COPPER AND
THOUGHT IT GOLD
PORTLAND, Ore., Dee. 20
Two men who held up the Mon
tana, rissay escaped with their
money belts filici! with gleaming
metal. They thought it was gold
but officials stated it was copper.
The essay office manager was for
eed to hand over $50 ot his person
al funds.
LATE ME WS
WASHINGTON, Dee. 20
Bankers acceptance of six months
maturity notes drawn bygrowers
of staple agricultural produets or
cooperative marketing associations
are eligible for pu'chase or dis
count by the federai reserve bank
under a ruling promulgated today
by the federai rtocrve board in the
first stetp inthe direction of long
er term credits for agriculture.
The decision which mutecs the
agricultural notes eligible for dis
count for six months instead of
three should be of material assist
ance to cooperative marketing as
scciation in financing the orderly
marketing of crops, it is said.
DOUTs-
Ku Klux Klan Believed Not
Invotved In Criticai
Situation
(By the Associated Presa)
MONROE, La., Dee. 20 Governor Parker and other
state officials declined tó state for what ptìrposes National
guardsmen had been ordered out. It is generally believed
thei' were ordered to Morehouse Terrace in connection with
the situation growing out of the
BARRE FALLS
AS COMPAOT D
WINS BY 24 TO 9
Flash
Both Quintets
Strong Attack at Ar
mory Contest
In one of the strongest defensive
games of the season at the arm-
ory, Company D turned back i fast
collection of stars from Barre by
the score of 24 to !). The defense
of each quintet shot-proof at the
inception of the contest but toward j
the finale, the St. Johnsbury hoop- I
sters wore down the visitors and
ran up a comfortable lead.
Features of the contest were
the unerring skill of Puss Connor,
and Lucky Fisk in reamfng out
the iron ri ni and the accuracy of
Coach Burns' long, clean-cut pass
es that terminated in over one
half of ali the locai field goals.
Scotty Mi1 it was the outstanding
star for Barre. Though he played
a backfield game, yet he", alone
seemed able to penetrate the brist
ling defense of Company D. Scotty
tallied five of the nine points se
cured by his team. Stacey Clark
heralded where-ever he goes as a
great basketeer and he is too
nashed little for the fans to rave
about last night. Stacey was pit
ted against the Scaletown bear
cat guard, Whitey Dumas.
Albert Goslant, Company D's
t n,in, K..lr lrt.n
twice for baskets and in general
(Contirjed on Page 3)
COLDEST DAY
SO FAR HITS 30
DEGREES BELOW
Tra in Service Is Delayed
By Extreme Cold
Weather
With the mercury hovering
around 30 below this morning, a
new low mark wrs set for the
temperature so far this year. Re
ports from various towns in this
vicinitv show an everage tempera
ture of 32 degrces.
Hastings store at West Danville
reported 2(ì. Lunnie's store at
Concord 32, Healey's store at Bar
net the sanie, PerrigiM-d's store
in Fairbanks village said 30, and
Frechette's on Railroad Street the
same. Fairbanks Museum reported
24 at eight o'clock this morning.
Newport reported 30, which was
not as low as expected from that
lakeside city but doubtless the
wind that sweeps down the broad
exprnse of Lake Memphremagog
had a far more chilling atfect Jian
the stili cold of the more sheltereu
villages.
Early risers in this village re
ported 40 below at several places
this morning and an average of
around 30. Lyndonville reported
the same, its average also being
around 40. From Sheffield comes
the alarming statement that the
mercury went down to 58 during
the night, however this was prob
ably merely niatter of conjecture.
The inten.e cold for the jast
few days has greatly delayed the
train servire. The early morning
mail from Springfield that is due
here around three o'clock a. m.
was reported at Thetford around
eight o'clock this morning. ari'1
ibout six hours late. Ali the
trains have been running from 4(1
minutes to an hour late since ihe
cold nave strack tliis purt of Jie
country.
The Weather
Snow tonight and
Thursday. Warmer to
night in Vermont and
N. H. Fresh winds.
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kidnapping last August by hooded
men of five Mer Rouge citizens,
two of whom are stili, missing.
The kidnaping case which for
four months has baffled ali the le
gai maehinery of Louisiana origin
ated, it is said, a.vthe result of a
fued between rivai factions of
Morehouse Terrace. Although the
Ku Klux Klan has been cha e 1
n sonle nuartera with being nv Iv-
i? i mei c is nuLiiiiig io HuoHianuuvc
this opinion.
NEW ORLEANS, La., Dee. 20
Company G National Guard of
Monroe has arrived at Mer Rouge
and pitched camp, aecording to a
. telephone dispatch
PASSUMPSIC
HANDSOMEFLAG
The Gift of Chamberlain
Relief Corps of St.
Johnsbury
A very pleasnnt and beautiful
sei-vice took place at the Pasump-
sic church Sunday morning .when
the oman s Relief Corps of St.
Johnsbury presented the church
with a handsome r.ag. In spito o
the storni there was a large at
tendance at the impressive ser-
, v"ìS':
Tho prcsentation took place at
the dose of the regular service
which was of a patriotic nature.
The pastor spoke on the relation
of the church to the nation. He
VL i-IlUItll LIl'J UUUOIl
Ktaia tBnnatn ,mf utl,
each other. The church enjoyed
(Continuecl r,n page b)
EXPLOSION DAMAGES
C. P. li. ELEVATOR
ST. JOHNS, N. S. Dee. 20
An explosion today in one of
the Canadian Pacific ìuilroad ele
vators today aused considerable
damage first reports were that no
one was hurt.
POSTPONE ACTION ON
GREEN RESOLUTION
WASHINGTON, Dee. 20
House Republican leaders decided
today to postpone rurther consid
eration of the Green rcsolution to
the Constitution for tax exemption
of sccui'ities.
One definition of AN1MA
TION is: "to impart hfe to."
A definition for BUSINESS
is: "something necessary to be
ilone."
Often the fact that a thing
is "necessary to be done" takes
the animation out of it. This
is osperially so of merchandis
ing. There is something pro
saie ibout a sture. That is. u ri -td
,-omeone imparts life into
it. A very little rea! anima
tion will art like magic ori a
.-ture.
The surest way to impart
life to, or mimate your busi-,
ness is through its newspaper
advertisements. Not so long
; go only a few peojile n:ad
the ads, but everybody reads
ads runvadays.
This newspaper reaches
12.01) of the ad-readeis and
those ad-readers are the ones
to change your business into
a live-wire conce'ii.